How do you balance your responsibilities as a member of multiple discourse communities?
Answer the following Questions:
1.) How do you balance your responsibilities as a member of multiple discourse communities? Do your discourse communities overlap or are they completely separate? How has becoming a member of the discourse community that is this class impacted your ability to participate in other discourse communities to which you belong? And, finally, do you see yourself as an emerging expert on your chosen social problem/issue? Why/why not?
2.) Select one of the video profiles at PBS Nova series, The Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers. Then, write briefly about how the scientist/engineer you’ve chosen bridges the gap between their two discourse communities.
Link to Videos for #2 :https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/blogs/secretlife/vid…
This will help you with #1: A “discourse community” is a group of people involved in and communicating about a particular topic, issue, or in a particular field. It has a few defining characteristics, which are, briefly: a common set of goals; processes and mechanisms for communication among community members; and, an ability to communicate in multiple genres using language that is both effective and understood by all members of the group
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